What university should be: learning useful new stuff
What university is: decoding the cyllabus, writing emails, reading the same shit over and over again because it is in the ✨exam✨, being told one of the readings you did was just a "fun introduction to the topic" (it was Tolstoy), writing the same email but differently phrased because it was misinterpreted, panic, coaching friends through the panic, slashing the tires of your group project partners, getting As in courses you know will never matter, failing the courses in your prefered field, psychoanalyzing professors to know what they mean, imposter syndrome, wondering whether you should email again or just call, putting footnotes in your papers for three days straight, crying, summarizing a two-hour lecture into a single page "point", agonizing over future employment and yes indeed, learning new stuff
